Few expect China's current account to balance even in the medium term, but the country's surpluses are likely to stop growing so quickly and may even shrink before too long.
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In many countries the labour force will even shrink.
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Speaking of which, the researchers believe they could pump the range up to 10 miles with a bit of extra research, and even shrink the blaster down to make it "fully portable" in less than five years.
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It is likely that as companies find ways to cut spending, retirement plans will shrink even more.
More liberalisation would see it shrink even further, to the point where many would go out of business.
But Syrian room for manoeuvre, already small, is likely to shrink even further.
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Set up an automatic debit from your checking account and your purchase fees shrink even more, and some companies will waive minimum initial investments.
Church budgets will shrink even more than they have already.
Democratic majorities are likely to shrink or even vanish, increasing the deadlock on Capitol Hill.
Eurozone leaders have called for tougher austerity measures in both Spain and Greece, even as their economies shrink rapidly.
Such a credit could also eliminate the onerous marriage penalties faced by low-income single parents whose EITCs can shrink or even disappear when they tie the knot.
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If a carmaker stops employing its own office cleaners and instead buys cleaning services from a specialist company, then output and employment in the service sector appear to grow overnight, and those in manufacturing to shrink, even though nothing has changed.
As demand for unskilled labor continues to shrink and even the lowest-level jobs require skills beyond what most eighteen-year-olds graduate with, most of them will enter the labor market completely unprepared and essentially clueless as to how to interact with the marketplace.
The latest deduplication advances automate the process of hunting down multiple files at a very granular level and apply specialized compression algorithms to what remains to shrink your data even further.
By tossing out PCs, servers and bank branch automation hardware, he has steadily boosted NCR's profitability, even as revenues have continued to shrink.
The analyst thinks earnings may not grow even with expanding margins, as revenues shrink.
The troika this week commended Portugal's fiscal tightening and reform programme, but GDP will shrink by 3% or even more in 2012.
And he is not getting a rough ride for the economic downturn (even though Italy's GDP could shrink by 5% this year), as Italian banks and bankers are relatively conservative by nature.
Even then, facilities are likely to shrink as non-bank investors such as hedge funds drop out of loan syndicates and banks that had only extended money in the hope of ancillary business also draw back.
Holiday sales consistently represent nearly one-fifth of annual retail sales, even though the share has continued to shrink over the past 15 years, perhaps due to earlier shopping or to the increased use of gift cards, which are typically redeemed in January or later, according to the NRF.
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Romney would not use even a penny of new revenues to help shrink the deficit.
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It is also common to see Labor Day leads shrink dramatically in presidential races or even disappear.
The race to shrink electronic circuits will continue, even if and when the transistor falls by the wayside.
As state handouts shrink, the universities are turning even more to private sources.
DPJ, its own postal plan would shrink the state's influence even more than his, by halving the assets of Japan Post before eventually selling it.
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Even without default, the economy is forecast to shrink 2.2% this year and 4% next.
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We saw the middle class put under even greater stress and saw its incomes stagnate and shrink while more affluent Americans saw their wealth increase.
Sanyo and IBM face strong competition on fuel cells because many firms are working on ways to shrink the systems to fit laptops and even handheld computers.
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